iPhone PSA
The throttling only happens when the processor is demanding more power than the battery can provide. This is an alternative to the random shutdowns that happened to those of us with the “battery refund” 6s’s in 2015.
It is NOT to prolong battery life. It’s to prevent random shut-offs.
So, with this design, your phone will only be slow when it gets “overwhelmed”.
If it is slow all the time, it has a legit problem. Good news is, it can almost always be quickly fixed for free at home.
Here are some ways:
Turn off background app refresh
Quit apps you aren’t actively using anyway (though don’t quit the clock if you’re using an alarm, should still work but it’s a little dodgy sometimes)
Check your storage. If you’ve got less than a gigabyte free, the processor is going to have more trouble
Check how much space each app is taking up. Apps with more caches are more likely to crash and/or shut down.
If all else fails, your phone may actually be wearing out. There are apps to check your processor speed. If the battery is normal and the processor is not, sadly the motherboard is genuinely worn out. But it’s much more likely that your battery is so worn down that even simple tasks demand more power than it can produce. A battery replacement may be in order.
I’d appreciate it if people shared this. Selfishly, while I want to help people get more out of their phones, I also don’t want Apple to be forced to get rid of this feature. Because then our phones will randomly shut off again and that’s really annoying.
